Economics Learning and Teaching Awards

Each year, the Economics Network of the HE Academy gives out awards to recognise and reward exemplary practice from within the UK academic economics community. Winners receive £250.

We are now accepting nominations for the 2010 awards, with a deadline of Wednesday 14th July. Awards are made in three categories:

Outstanding Teaching Award

Student Nominated Award

eLearning Award

Please direct all enquiries about the awards to the Awards Co-ordinator Bhagesh Sachania (b.m.sachania@bristol.ac.uk).

Student Essay Competition

We offer annual awards for students' reflections on their experiences of studying economics. In the 2010 competition, the title was "How is your economics degree preparing you for life?" We have summarised the main themes of the 25 submitted essays. The three winners' essays have been posted on our sister site StudyEconomics.ac.uk . Congratulations to Jade Yap from the LSE, Heather Purdie from Strathclyde University and Mohamed Ismail from Queen Mary, University of London.

The 2009 essay question was "How would you make difficult economics easier to learn?" and the three winning essays are also online.

2008's question was "What makes the best learning experience for you?".

The 2006 winner was studying BA(Hons) Economics at Manchester University, with an essay answering "How does your experience of your course compare with any expectations you may have had?".

The 2005 competition was won by a Kingston University undergraduate for writing on "What makes the best learning experience for you?".